TXT In plain English
Company description
GRANT INSTRUMENTS (CAMBRIDGE) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 4 May 1960; registered for 66 years; registered office reported in ROYSTON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 26511 · Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported profit after tax −£497,000, net assets £5,641,000, average employees 51. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 17 trade marks, 1 procurement record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- GRANT INSTRUMENTS (CAMBRIDGE) LIMITED
- Company number
- 00658133
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 13 total · 3 outstanding · 10 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
22 May 2026Next statement due
5 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- −£497,000
- Fixed assets
- £2,987,000
- Net assets
- £5,641,000
- Current assets
- £4,717,000
- Current liabilities
- £1,177,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £6,527,000
- Cash at bank
- £1,740,000
- Equity
- £5,641,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Thermogradient Plate incubator (Replacement)
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · ocds-b5fd17-fead04c3-d856-4852-ab6c-6de816184658
- Supplier named in award
- GRANT INSTRUMENTS (CAMBRIDGE) LIMITED
- Award value
- £35,000
- Contract period
- 5 November 2022 – 31 March 2023
- Published
- 1 November 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31682210
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fead04c3-d856-4852-ab6c-6de816184658-2022-11-01T15:41:04Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
GRANT-BIO
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 March 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 March 2023
OPTIMA
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 11
- Filed / designated
- 4 October 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 October 2020
LABWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 25 March 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 March 2020
Figurative mark
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9,16
- Filed / designated
- 22 October 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 October 2027
GRANT
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 20 August 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 August 2020
SQUIRREL
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2028
PRIMA
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 11
- Filed / designated
- 4 October 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 October 2010
SETWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 October 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 October 2007
COOLWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 October 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 October 2007
1600 SQUIRREL
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 26 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 January 2016
SQUIRRELWISE PLUS
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 26 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 January 2016
TASKWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2001
REMOTEWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2011
FILEWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2011
PAINTWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2011
TEMPWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 21 August 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 August 2009
SQUIRRELWISE
Owner Grant Instruments (Cambridge) Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2008
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Royston Instruments Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House, Cardiff
- Registration number
- 15915089
- Notified
- 28 February 2025
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 15 February 2021
- Ceased
- 28 February 2025
Dartington Hall Trust
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a trust)
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Charities Act
- Legal form
- Charity
- Place registered
- Charities Commission
- Registration number
- 279756
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 23 December 2020
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.